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Bialystoker Brotherly Love Association

Bialystoker Brotherly Love Association

Society that provided Simcha with aid for one shoe annually.

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... He was a frequent visitor at meetings of various Bialystoker societies. Usually he asked for a new suit, rent for his room, or something else. Once he went to the Somach Noflim, requesting a שסם''‎ 5806." Imme- diately he was asked why only one shoe. He answered that he would get the second shoe from the Bialystoker Brotherly Love Association, another society. And that’s the way it was: the Somach Noflim gave him a dollar and a half for one shoe and the Brotherly Love the same amount for the other shoe. Faithfully these two societies granted him a new shoe every year until he died. ...
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